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Tutorials, demos, and code walkthroughs for a wide variety of real-time web, mobile, and IoT projects.

BuildDec 22, 2016

Build Incident Management In Real time Apps with PagerDuty

How to build incident management capabilities, like real-time alerts and notifications, into your real-time app with PagerDuty.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 21, 2016

Building Intelligent Q&A Apps with Wolfram Alpha API

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that allows users to submit a question, any question, and receive a comprehensive answer. It uses natural language understanding to parse user queries and retrieve answers from a highly curated data set. With Wolfram Alpha, you can give knowledge of geography,...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 21, 2016

Tracking Real-time Custom Metrics Apps with Librato API

How to monitor, analyze, process, and visualize real-time data in a real-time application using the Librato block.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 15, 2016

Sending Transactional Email from Real-time apps: SendGrid

Trigger the sending of a transactional email based on a user’s actions or an action in a real-time data stream, like sensor readings, a chat message, or a collaborative app.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 13, 2016

Analyzing Real-time User Sentiment with Lexalytics Semantria

The Semantria API from Lexalytics allows you to categorize and extract text, and analyze it for sentiment and emotion. The Lexalytics block lets you process real-time data streams while they are in-motion, enabling you analyze and categorize text and run functions based on the result. For example, you...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 9, 2016

Real-time Presentation Remote Control: reveal.js + PubNub

We would like to introduce you to Salvatore Cordiano. He is a full stack web developer with over 6 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. He recently gave a talk at the Chatbots Milano Conference in Milan and he surprised the audience with his slides. He used PubNub to allow the...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 6, 2016

Real-time Text Translation with SDL Language Cloud

Text translation services can be useful in a variety situations, such as content accessibility for users from different cultures, real-time augmented reality text translation, integration with text-to-speech services, translation to a common “hub” language, and other cases where the input...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildDec 1, 2016

Speech Recognition and Voice Activation Tutorial Roundup

When it comes to interfaces and hardware, voice functionality and speech recognition continues to grow in both adoption and capability. Voice technology, both local and cloud-based, is being built into every device category. From smart TVs (Apple TV), to kitchen hubs (Amazon Echo), to web browsers, smart...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildNov 30, 2016

Add SMS Real-time Alerts + Notifications with ClickSend SMS

SMS can be a headache, so we're very excited to announce our newest BLOCKS partner, ClickSend SMS. The ClickSend SMS API lets you send and receive SMS from web-enabled computers and mobile phones. The ClickSend SMS block allows you to send SMS alerts and notifications via the PubNub Programmable Network....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll